Featuring The Moose Riders by Charlie James

The Moose Riders, Page 54

So I’ve been posting links to The Moose Riders on Reddit over the last few weeks and they’ve consistently been down-voted. It’s a bit discouraging, especially since there’s no critique involved. I have no way of knowing if folks don’t dig it because they don’t like the story or because it makes no sense to them jumping right in at the middle. Do they think the art sucks, or is the lack of backgrounds in just this current sequence of pages off-putting? I’m posting under “comics,” and most of the other links there seem to be gag comics–either strips or single panel cartoons. Maybe there’s a long-form comic sub-reddit that I’m missing and I get the down-votes because I’m posting in the wrong place? I don’t know what I’m doing wrong here. If any of you have input/advice, I’d appreciate it. Thanks!

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My experience with reddit is that the people, on the whole, are looking for some quick novelty spark…or a series of various sparks is a better way of putting it. They don’t want to invest too much time or energy in something. So, seeing that it’s a longer comic, they most likely don’t even give it a chance.
I am not sure if there is a sub-category, but it seems like it would almost have to be an entirely different site than reddit because their users seem to be predominantly of the previously mentioned variety.

Now, MY opinion is that the pages you’ve been picking have been intriguing and filled with great artwork and a compelling story. This one, in particular, captures a perfect zombie story moment- the false security, the hope dashed at the last second. Very good!